Motherless Brooklyn
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York, N.Y. : Vintage Contemporaries, 2000.
Physical Desc:
311 pages ; 21 cm
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Status:
South Natomas
FICTION Lethem, J.
Description
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist.
"A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe
Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal.
But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head.
Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
"A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe
Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal.
But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head.
Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
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Format:
Book
Edition:
1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Language:
English
ISBN:
0375724834, 0385491832
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.1, 15 Points
Level 6.1, 15 Points
Notes
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.1,15,35837.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Lethem, J. (2000). Motherless Brooklyn. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York, N.Y., Vintage Contemporaries.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Lethem, Jonathan. 2000. Motherless Brooklyn. New York, N.Y., Vintage Contemporaries.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Lethem, Jonathan, Motherless Brooklyn. New York, N.Y., Vintage Contemporaries, 2000.
MLA Citation (style guide)Lethem, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York, N.Y., Vintage Contemporaries, 2000.
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